Evans Library and Learning Commons

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USING OPEN ACCESS

DATA REPOSITORIES

Open (access) Data

Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

• Availability and Access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet. The data must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form.

• Reuse and Redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets.

• Universal Participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute - there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or groups. For example, ‘non-commercial’ restrictions that would prevent ‘commercial’ use, or restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education), are not allowed.

via Open Data Handbook

http://datadryad.org/

http://figshare.com/

http://www.data.gov/

http://www.re3data.org/

Questions?

Holly MillerEvans Library - 302hmiller@fit.edu321-674-8871